Participant List

First Expert Group Workshop on Trade, Finance and Development
13-14 April 2015 – Geneva, Switzerland
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Theme Leader
Jean-Louis ARCAND
Director of the Centre for Finance and Development
and Professor, Graduate Institute Geneva
Principal Conveners of the E15Initiative
Ricardo MELÉNDEZ-ORTIZ
Chief Executive, International Centre for Trade and
Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
Richard SAMANS
Managing Director and Member of the Managing
Board, World Economic Forum
Convener
Harsha Vardhana SINGH
Senior Associate for Strategic Research and Policy
Analysis, ICTSD / Former Deputy Director-General,
WTO
Co-convener
Pol ANTRÀS (via videoconference)
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Group Managers
Vinaye dey ANCHARAZ
Senior Development Economist, ICTSD
Francesca BIANCHI
Project Associate, International Trade and
Investment, World Economic Forum
Members
Mehmet ARDA
Executive Board Member, Center for Economic and
Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)
Debapriya BHATTACHARYA
Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
10. Jaime DE MELO
Scientific Director, Fondation pour les Etudes et la
Recherche sur le Développement International
(FEDRI)
11. Jane DRAKE-BROCKMAN
Head of Services, International Trade Centre (ITC)
12. Kimberly Ann ELLIOTT
Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Development
13. Patrick GUILLAUMONT (via videoconference)
Founder and professor, Fondation pour les Etudes et
la Recherche sur le Développement International
(FEDRI)
14. Emily JONES
Associate Professor and Researcher, University of
Oxford
15. Katrin KUHLMANN
President and Founder, New Markets Lab
16. Jean-François LAMBERT
Managing Director, Global Head Commodity and
Structured Trade Finance, HSBC Holdings plc
17. Frans LAMMERSEN
Principal Administrator, Development Co-operation
Directorate, OECD
18. Richard NEWFARMER
Country Program Advisor and Country Director,
International Growth Centre
19. Marcelo OLARREAGA
Professor of International Trade, Université de
Genève
20. Datuk SUPPERAMANIAM
Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative
of Malaysia to the WTO
21. L. Alan WINTERS
Professor of Economics, University of Sussex
Observers
22. Hieu “Tom” BUI
Director, Strategic and Operating Review Task Force,
Canadian International Development Agency
23. Kornell MAHLSTEIN
Economist, Sidley Austin LLP
Thematic Team and Project Management
24. Marie CHAMAY
Senior Manager, E15Initiative, ICTSD
25. Sean DOHERTY
Director, International Trade & Investment, World
Economic Forum
26. Rashmi JOSE
Programme Officer, E15Initiative, ICTSD / Group
Manager of the E15 Expert Group on Industrial Policy
and Task Force on Regulatory Systems Coherence